LIFT Award to Professor Lease

Professor Matt Lease is one of only five recipients of a Longhorn Innovation Fund for Technology (LIFT) grant at UT
His proposal (with TACC and the College of Liberal Arts) is entitled: Enabling Data-Intensive Research and Education at UT Austin via Cloud
Computing.

This proposal team envisions the University of Texas at Austin as a
pioneer institution in scientific discovery and education based on cloud
computing. While UT already has many of the necessary raw ingredients to
achieve this vision, an additional investment in cloud computing
infrastructure and training is needed to bring together existing
resources and personnel to make this vision a reality. The proposal uses
an existing TACC computer cluster augmented with distributed storage
(local hard drives) and open-source "Hadoop" software, which will
together enable cloud computing. Faculty, students, and staff will work
collaboratively to develop campus-wide cloud computing expertise at UT
via a program of research talks, training workshops, course offerings,
and online documentation.